Brian Taves & Stephen Michaluk, Jr.

Foreword by André Laurie

293 pp. 8 1/2″ × 11″ photos 1996 ISBN 0-8108-2961-4 $54.50

From Around the World in 80 Days to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
millions of readers around the world have enjoyed the works of Jules
Verne for over 120 years, and today he is recognized as one of the
most important literary figures of all time. With the discovery of his
long-lost manuscripts such as Paris in the Twentieth Century, Verne
continues to amaze modern audiences with his astounding predictions of
the future.

The Jules Verne Encyclopedia utilizes a variety of approaches to
reveal the author as a cultural phenomenon whose influence has
radiated throughout science and the arts. The authors outline Verne’s
life in a critical overview, and in a compilation of autobiographical
interviews given to journalists during his lifetime and reprinted here
for the first time. Also included is Verne’s controversial novelette,
“The Humbug,” a satire of American mores never before published in The
United States. A vast and meticulous bibliography compiles information
from the collections of individuals, institutions, and archives, along
with trade publications and copyright records, tracing the thousands
of different editions, retitlings, translations, and abridgments of
each of Verne’s over sixty books and numerous short stories, plays,
articles, and poems.

Verne is an equally important presence outside of literature,
achieving recognition in hundreds of postage stamps and in Hollywood
adaptations of his stories. Each of these topics is covered in a
detailed chapter. Together, these multiple facets make The Jules Verne
Encyclopedia a research landmark that will fulfill the varying needs
for a general introduction to Verne, suitable for public libraries, as
well as for the specialized information required by scholars,
universities, collectors, philatelists, and cinephiles.

“The standard reference on this author for all scholars, collectors,
and librarians . . . Informative and authoritative, The Jules Verne
Encyclopedia is essential reading for all aficionados of Jules
Verne and for all who wish an inside glimpse into how the disparate
worlds of science, literature, and media were first successfully
combined in Western culture.”

Brian Taves
(Ph.D., University of Southern California) is a specialist
in film history with the Library of Congress. He is a regular
contributor to the scholarly Parisian quarterly, Bulletin de la
Société Jules Verne, and in 1993 arranged the first English-language
translation and publication of Verne’s fairy tale, Adventures of the
Rat Family, published by Oxford University Press.

Stephen Michaluk, Jr.
(B.A., National-Louis University) is a Navy
Program Analyst at the Pentagon. He is a Verne collector
extraordinaire with an extensive bibliographic background and one of
the most notable and comprehensive personal collections of Verne in
the United States.

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